BOOK REVIEW
Forced to Choose
et al., Roald Hoffmann
JOHN McPHEE
Longtime New Yorker writer and chronicler of the North
American continent, whose Annals of the Former World
appears on our list
Bates & Jackson's Glossary of Geology (American
Geological Institute). Literally, they set a standard.
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